The Role Functionalist Theory of Absences
Erkenntnis 80 (3):505-519 (2015)
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Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of nothing. Or, more accurately, a role functionalist theory of those absences that are causes and effects
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| Keywords | absences causation functionalism |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10670-014-9686-x |
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